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Former LSO MD Clive Gillinson with local school children in LSO St Luke's pre-renovation

History of LSO St Luke's

An innovative venture and a unique one, LSO St Luke's is the foremost UK orchestral music education centre. It is the physical embodiment of the LSO's aspiration to draw in more people to enjoy music - from the local community and around the world.

In the mid-1990s when the LSO raised the idea of rebuilding the disused Hawksmoor church of St Luke's close to the Orchestra's home at the Barbican as a base for the LSO Discovery music education programme, it approached the global finance firm UBS, who were delighted to back the project.

Over the years UBS and its employees have contributed substantial funds, technical expertise and voluntary time to LSO St Luke's and they still do today. LSO St Luke's shows how much can be achieved when businesses work with arts and education organisations to develop projects designed to add new dimensions to the lives of people in deprived communities, such as those in and around east London.

In this section you can find out a little more about St Luke's Church and how it became LSO St Luke's, the UBS and LSO Music Education Centre.